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"Obama Open to Inquiry in Interrogation Abuses"

"Obama Open to Inquiry in Interrogation Abuses": The New York Times has a news update that begins, "President Obama on Tuesday left open the door to creating a bipartisan commission that would investigate the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects, and he did not rule out taking action against the lawyers who fashioned the legal guidelines for the interrogations."

The Washington Post has a news update headlined "Obama Open to Probe, Prosecutions of Top Officials Over Interrogations."

The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined "Obama remarks on torture memos leave open possibility of prosecution; The president opposes prosecution of CIA operatives, but high-level officials who authorized the actions may not be immune."

Steven Thomma and Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers have an article headlined "Obama: Prosecution possible for those who OK'd torture."

And The Associated Press has reports headlined "Obama open to prosecution, probe of interrogations"; "Unresolved debate in DOJ memos: Does torture work?"; and "Cheney: US gained information from interrogations."

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).